WiktionaryWord definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul. 2 A heavy blow. 3 An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See pall mall. 4 A place where the game of mall was played. 5 A public walk; a level shaded walk. 6...

Douglas Harper's Etymology DictionaryWord definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1737, "shaded walk serving as a promenade," generalized from The Mall , name of a broad, tree-lined promenade in St. James's Park, London (so called from 1670s, earlier Maill , 1640s), which was so called because it formerly was an open alley that was used...

WordNetWord definitions in WordNet
n. a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk [syn: promenade ] mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version...

Usage examples of mall.

In many malls, upscale stores are clustered together so the affluent shopper can drift from one to the other, looking not just for the good life but for the better life.

Instead of starlight you now get the glow from the Sawgrass Mills mall, a humongous Ford dealership and, absurdly, the crown of a new pro hockey arena.

Individuals have played an essential part in the malling of America, and they will play a crucial role in reinventing the mall.

When they avoid mentioning politics or religion, because those topics may be too controversial, they reinforce the marginalization of important American institutions by the institution of the mall.

In a huge hardware store at the mall I saw Eric Massingale, a former microchip sales engineer who changed his life by coming out here to join the teaching staff of the computer center at the Hill.

We have grown accustomed to the constant overwatch of surveillance cameras, in banks, in shopping malls, and convienience stores, in government buildings, office buildings and apartment buildings and airports, on highways, at intersections and in parking lots.

He would prepay a room, park his truck in the back somewhere, get cleaned up, and walk over to the mall, where there were bound to be ATMs.

It looks at how we acquire the knowledge that lets us productively and pleasurably navigate malls that offer few explicit directions.

Sappha, at a imiling nod from Sister, removed the Baroness to a mall cubicle to make her ready, and presently wheeled her out once more to meet the radiographer and Mijnheer de Winter, who wrung her hand jelightedly and listened with relish while the Baroness recounted the rescue of the puppy.

Pall Mall drooping from his lip at an impossible angle, leaving ashes behind him like a trail of bread crumbs, showing his young son how to reglaze a window.

Marcelle was about to depart from her rented apartment in Kensington to reconnoitre the Mall, down which King George V and Queen Mary and the royal procession would drive on the way to the coronation on 22 June.

Dan Roser, who developed the Philly Court strip mall located on the waterfront, and who alleges that John and Marco Coluzzi and other officials of Coluzzi Construction, McRea Paving and Excavation, and an array of other subcontractors engaged in a complex scheme of fraud, bribery, kickbacks, intimidation, and other unlawful and corrupt practices in connection with the construction of the shopping center.

Jared or Mike had found this skilled shipbuilder for her, possibly from some primitive region where there were no televisions or malls.

Frank, so I just said something about how I had a suspicion that the shoplifting might be the work of mall employees.

Husband material in the late seventies and eighties was in as short supply as ever -- even for long, slim blondes -- so, before she finally did get engaged and then married, after all this happened, she spent half her time in the mall office fending off passes from the usual gang of suspects, some of them higher-ups in the Speedway Corporation.